Expert Reconstruction Company LLC

Expert Reconstruction Company LLC takes great pride in providing high quality traffic accident investigation and reconstruction services to the litigation community. We offer extensive experience with all types of traffic collisions including: automobiles, trucks, tractor-trailers, buses, trains, motorcycles, bicycles, and pedestrians. Our clientele is equally split between plaintiff and defense in civil and criminal matters.

Services

Expert Reconstruction Company provides services in:

• Traffic accident reconstruction
• Accident causation, avoidance, and prevention
• Time, speed and distance analyses
• Collision severity and Delta-V
• Crash Data Retrieval / Event Data Recorder
• 3-D Computer Animations & Simulations
• Human factors
• Vehicle and site inspections
• Occupant dynamics and kinematics
• Restraint systems (seat belts and airbags)
• Product liability
• Safety systems
• Highway and road factors
• Scene diagrams & photography
• Court exhibit preparation
• Expert witness testimony

Litigation Support Services

Expert Reconstruction Company offers services in traffic accident analyses, consulting, and expert services for attorneys and insurance companies handling civil or criminal litigation throughout California. Whether serving plaintiff or defense, we offer clients quality and experience with integrity.

Areas of Expertise

• 3D Animation
• Accident
• Accident Analysis
• Accident Investigation
• Accident Prevention
• Accident Reconstruction
• Airbags
• Automotive
• Bicycles
• Biomechanical Engineering
• Biomechanics
• Bus Safety
• Car Accident
• Crash Data Retrieval

• Criminal
• Damages
• Engineering
• Engineering Highways
• Engineering Investigation
• Engineering Mechanical
• Failure Analysis
• Highway Safety
• Human Factors
• Investigation
• Litigation
• Mechanical
• Occupant Dynamics
• Personal Injury

• Physics
• Products Liability
• Railroads
• Research
• Safety
• Seat Belts
• Speed Analysis
• Traffic Accident
• Traffic Crash Reconstruction
• Transportation
• Trucking
• Wrongful Death

Profile

Our mission is to provide clients with accurate and honest assessments of all the accident reconstruction issues pertaining to each case in an expedient yet thorough and cost-effective manner.

Our approach is to acquire, review and consider the significant and relevant evidence in every case. Then we apply the laws of science and physics in conjunction with human factors principles, experience, and common sense in order to analyze What, How, and Why an accident happened.

We also have extensive experience assessing other related issues, such as: safety, product performance, accident avoidance, accident prevention and causation. Typical case analysis includes:

• Speed, time, position & visibility determinations
• Collision severity
• Change in velocity (Delta-V)
• Crash Data Retrieval
• Accident site evaluation (including Total Station Survey if needed)
• Occupant movements & interactions with seat belts, airbags, and vehicle interior
• Computer simulation and/or animation
• Product liability assessment
• Occupant protection
• Human, vehicle, & environment interrelations

Consulting Practice

Throughout California and the United States

More Information

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Professional Experience

Expert Reconstruction Company, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo, CA CEO / Senior Consultant 1999 to Present

Traffic Accident Reconstruction Service for attorneys, insurance companies, government agencies, and research organizations. Manual and computer-aided accident reconstructions, speed/time/position analysis, occupant dynamics and restraint system (seat belts & airbags) analysis, product defect investigation and testing, forensic investigations, vehicle dynamics, accident scene and vehicle crush assessments, photographic documentation and interpretation, technical reports, computer simulations and animations, court exhibit preparation, expert witness testimony.

• Automotive Safety Research Inc., Santa Barbara, CA
• Vice President / Accident Reconstruction Specialist
• 1987 to 1999

More than 600 detailed Accident Reconstructions performed over a twelve-year period. Restraint system and occupant protection system evaluations, including: seat belts, airbags, and vehicle interior design; airbag tank testing, speed and Delta-V analyses, computer reconstructions, occupant kinematics analysis, product defect investigations, accident scene and vehicle damage documentation & assessments and expert witness testimony. Extensive courtroom and deposition experience.

Licenses

ACTAR Accredited (Accreditation Commission for Traffic Accident Reconstructionists)

Legal Experience & Services

Mr. Gayner has 30 years of experience as a professional accident reconstruction expert. He has testified over 250 times in trials, depositions, and arbitrations.

Affiliations

• Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
• Society of Accident Reconstructionists (SOAR)
• * American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
• Accident Reconstruction Network
• California Association of Accident Reconstruction Specialists (CAARS)
• National Association of Professional Accident Reconstruction Specialists (NAPARS)
• * ACTAR certified
• * Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM)

Qualifications

In addition to his formal engineering education and supplemental accident analysis training, Mr. Gayner has been an expert in traffic accident analysis and reconstruction for 28 years. He has performed detailed analyses of more than 1000 cases.

Awards & Honors

• Pi Tau Sigma, Mechanical Engineering Honor Society
• Tau Beta Pi, Engineering Honor Society
• Phi Kappa Phi, University-wide Honor Society
• Outstanding Graduating Senior Award, Montana State University College of Engineering

Seminars & Training

More than 30 specialized training courses and seminars in accident reconstruction, collision analysis, human factors, biomechanics, crash data retrieval and related subjects.

Publications

Safety 101: Laws That Save Lives, San Luis Obispo County Bar Association, Bar Bulletin, July-August 2008.

Education

• MSME University of California, Santa Barbara 1988
• Master of Science Degree, Mechanical Engineering
• Master’s Thesis: Occupant Kinematics and Dynamics in Automobile Collisions

• BSME, Montana State University 1986
• Bachelor of Science Degree, Mechanical Engineering
• Outstanding Engineering Senior Award

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